The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Chick Vennera: Joe Mondragon
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Quotes
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Joe Mondragon : Would you like a punch in the mouth?
Nancy Mondragon : Go ahead. I'll hit you so hard, they'll arrest you in El Paso for speeding.
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Joe Mondragon : You beat Luis Armijo by two votes.
Sheriff Bernabe Montoya : That's because Domingo and Gusdorf were out of town.
Joe Mondragon : So you would have won by four.
Sheriff Bernabe Montoya : Hell, no, man - those guys vote six, seven times apiece.
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Nancy Mondragon : How could you keep this from me, Joe?
Joe Mondragon : I didn't wanna worry you.
Nancy Mondragon : Good, good! My husband wants to get himself shot without giving his wife a chance to worry?
Joe Mondragon : It's my beanfield, Nancy!
Nancy Mondragon : It's not your water!
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Joe Mondragon : Nobody gives a damn about a lousy beanfield.
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Joe Mondragon : I'm gonna plant that beanfield, Nancy.
Nancy Mondragon : Good. The children and I'll decorate your tombstone with beans instead of flowers.
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Sheriff Bernabe Montoya : So you're not gonna stop.
Joe Mondragon : I'll stop when I think I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Joe Mondragon : I head the crew. You supply the plumbing. And do you know for what price? Fourteen dollars an hour! That's three months' work guaranteed.
Ruby Archuleta : Just a bribe, Jose.
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Joe Mondragon : You know what I could do with $14.00 an hour? I could pay off the refrigerator, that stupid TV.
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Ruby Archuleta : In return, you give up the beanfield, right?
Joe Mondragon : What beanfield? I'll make more in one day than on all those beans.
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Charlie Bloom : Wait a minute. Where the hell ya goin'?
Joe Mondragon : Pick beans.
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Kyril Montana : Maybe I'll be back.
Joe Mondragon : If not, I'll send you a sack of beans.